23 May 2019
A waulk on the wild side
The Wool and the Wearers – the images of Margaret Fay Shaw of Canna House. All images © Canna Collections, National Trust for Scotland
Canna is the venue for the tweed-waulking event Waulk on the Wild Side this month. To coincide with this, Canna archivist Fiona has produced a gallery of some images of sheep, their wool and the wearers, by Margaret Fay Shaw of Canna House.
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